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I wonder whether anybody can help solve a problem which I have encountered as to what happened to Edward Simonds (also known as Symonds) as he just seemed to disappear.

What I do know is that he was born in 1858 in Atherstone, Warwickshire, and lived there, working as a hatter, until 1891 at least.

Then, for a period (but I don't know how long), he ran the Goats Head Inn in Abbots Bromley with a friend.  So far I've not been able to find any Directory listing him as licensee, though.

The 1901 Census reveals his wife, Mary Olivia Symonds, with her five children at their home, Bentilee Cottages in Abbots Bromley, but no Edward was present.  She described herself as 'married'.  A thorough search for Edward in that census has not turned up anything.

The next information that I have found is that Mary and the children emigrated to the States in about 1903, but Edward never did emigrate, and in the 1910 US Census Mary described herself as a widow.

One rumour in the family is that Edward died in a farm accident, but I have not been able to find any appropriate entry on St. Catherine's Register for the death.

Does anyone have any access to Abbots Bromley records which may shed any light on this man's fate?

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I wonder whether there are any records, generally available, of marriages which took place in Ireland, probably Co. Cork, in the 1850s.

I'm trying to locate the marriage of Daniel Hayes (b. about 1801) and Mary Evans (b. about 1820) in the early to middle part of the 1850s decade. 

The couple, who were both born in the Cork area to the best of my knowledge, moved to England in c. 1856 when they started a family with the children being born in London.  They did not marry in England, so the presumption must be that they married in Ireland prior to emigration.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Hi - help please.

As I do not now seem to be able to post a copy of the relevant part of a census page on this site, I wonder whether anyone would be prepared to look at an 1871 Census page and proffer advice on what a person's occupation is? 

I have tried to decipher the occupation on many occasions and cannot solve the riddle.  What is particularly infuriating in this instance is that every other person's occupation on the page is crystal clear.

The person I am interested in is John Boyle who was living at Medlock Street, Manchester.The full reference is:-

RG10 / 4038 / ED15 / f.30 / p. 54 / Household Schedule no. 269.

John Boyle is the third entry on the page and he is head of the family.  His occupation comprises just one word.

I hope someone can help bring some light to this problem.

Thanks,

Richard

Help.

I'm wanting to post a photo but when I click on the reference to adding a picture below the main text box nothing seems to happen - I don't get a browse facility.

Am I doing something wrong?

Can anyone advise, please.

Richard

I wonder whether anyone with access to the NBI for Shropshire could do a look-up for me.

I am seeking the death / burial of Elizabeth Stockton in the 1860s, probably in Whitchurch.  She would have been aged 80+.  I cannot tie her down on the St. Catherine's bmd Index as ages were not entered pre-1866, by which time I think that she was almost certainly dead.

At the time of the 1861 census, she was living at Pepper Street, Whitchurch, the town where she had been for most of her life.  Her age varies from census to census, but in that census she was recorded as being 85 (which I think could have been overstated by anything up to 5 years.

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